Igor
Igor é uma comédia irreverente que traz um novo ingrediente ao gênero clássico dos monstros. Num mundo cheio de cientistas Loucos e invenções Más, o talentoso assistente de laboratório de um cientista Mau tem grandes sonhos de se tornar um cientista Louco e ganhar o prêmio anual Mad Science Fair.
Directed by
Tony Leondis
Written by
Tony Leondis, John Hoffman, Dimitri Toscas, Chris McKenna
Studio
Exodus Film Group
Genre
Família, Animação, Comédia, Fantasia, Terror, Ficção científica
Video
1080p
Audio
Portuguese (AC3 5.1)
Cast
John Cusack
Igor (voice)
Myleene Klass
Dr. Holzwurm (voice)
Robin Walsh
Dr. Holzwurm's Igor (voice)
Matt McKenna
Dr. Herzschlag (voice)
John Cleese
Dr. Glickenstein (voice)
Steve Buscemi
Scamper (voice)
Sean Hayes
Brain (voice)
Eddie Izzard
Dr. Schadenfreude (voice)
Jay Leno
King Malbert (voice)
Jennifer Coolidge
Jaclyn / Heidi (voice)
Molly Shannon
Eva (voice)
James Lipton
Himself
Christian Slater
Dr. Schadenfreude's Igor (voice)
Arsenio Hall
Carl Cristall (voice)
Jess Harnell
Announcer / Royal Guard #2 (voice)
Zoë Bright
Blind Woman / Killiseum Fan #1 (voice)
Sophia Eraklis
Blind Orphan #1 (voice)
A. Cheron Hall
Blind Orphan #2 / Blind Orphan #4 (voice)
Alexander Leondis
Blind Orphan #3 (voice)
Michael Leondis
Blind Orphan #6 (voice)
Nicole Leondis
Blind Orphan #7 (voice)
Juliana Leondis
Blind Orphan #5 (voice)
Robin Tisserand
Blind Orphan #8 (voice)
Paul Vogt
Buzz Offmann (voice)
Frank Welker
Animals' vocal effects (voice) (uncredited)
Reviews
Amy Nicholson
A modest do-gooder trying to pretend that its not Cartoonland's most direct attack of the Bush administration.
Peter Hartlaub
While much of the banter between the characters is inventive, the plot turns are predictable - complete with a romantic misunderstanding straight out of The Karate Kid (and 20 other films).
Nancy Churnin
You can think of it as an animated riff on the American dream: Our fate is determined not by the accident of our birth, but our own will, intelligence and talent. And let's not forget serendipity.
Lou Lumenick
Pieced together from Tim Burton and various other sources with more desperation than inspiration.
Marc Savlov
Like most acts of cruel mediocrity committed in the name of entertaining children, Igor presumably seemed like a good idea at the time.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Phillips
My kid went with it, and I had a fairly good time, as I waited for the reappearance of a marble-mouthed peasant tart, voiced by Jennifer Coolidge. Half the time her line readings are hilarious, and it's impossible to know why.
Sara Michelle Fetters
While not quite as alive as I'd wish, this is still a movie with more electric creativity then a lot of other stuff I've seen this year, and as far as kids are concerned this is one experiment worth letting them conduct by themselves.
Mike Mayo
Even the desolate future envisioned in this summer's hit Wall-E has more immediate appeal for kids who might not be familiar with the source material for Igor.
Claudia Puig
While this is no WALLE, or Ratatouille, it does bring to mind Monsters, Inc. and some of the visual flair of Burton's The Corpse Bride.
Janice Page
To convince you that it's full of surprises, the movie throws in Louis Prima songs where they don't belong, and it riffs on classic monster-movie cliches mostly by spinning them into newly unfunny cliches.
New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
There's scant reward for sitting through Igor, an animated twist on the Frankenstein story that never sparks to life.
Adam Markovitz
Igor tries to spoof Mary Shelley just as Shrek did the Brothers Grimm, but something tells us this movie's charmless hero won't make an ogre-size impression on kid audiences. Call it a hunch.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
While the stitches holding together the plot are clearly visible, Igor breathes some enjoyable life into its stolen grab-bag of gimmicks.
Newsday
John Anderson
Director Tony Leondis and screenwriter Chris McKennna have mined everything from Young Frankenstein to Sleepy Hollow to Japanese anime to the German Neo-Expressionists to create that rare thing, a cartoon for adults.
Nick Schager
Director Anthony Leondis peppers his tale with a host of leaden cinematic references children will almost surely miss, which is just as well since virtually every film-related gag directed at adults feels like a pitiful attempt at knowing cleverness.
Roger Moore
There's enough good stuff here that a better 'toon could have been stitched together from the many promising funny parts.
Nell Minow
The tone of the movie is cheerily macabre.
Associated Press
David Germain
A potentially original premise and an eager voice cast led by John Cusack and Molly Shannon are left to decay amid a clunky story vaguely reminiscent of Monsters, Inc. and images often resembling visuals rejected from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.
Hollywood Reporter
Stephen Farber
Although the visuals tantalize and the actors providing the voices add a lot of sass, the result is only so-so.